.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 249 302 126
Rank change year-on-year +53 -176 +34
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 636 393 1,986
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.76% 0.99% 2.09%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.31% 5.04% 10.80%
Number of salaries quoted 610 330 1,831
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,125 £38,066
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £71,250 £85,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £104,550 £88,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +18.18% -12.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,698 7,802 18,392
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.44% 19.67% 19.32%
Number of salaries quoted 6,647 5,241 14,808
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,825 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,271 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.92% +10.45% -11.11%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 18 June 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 18 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -3 142 £55,000 -8.33% 50
South East +63 140 £55,000 +10.00% 44
Midlands +32 97 £55,000 -8.33% 21
London -83 90 £85,000 +6.25% 64
East of England +56 89 £65,000 +18.18% 20
North West +21 75 £55,000 -8.33% 26
South West -13 74 £52,500 -12.50% 13
West Midlands +6 50 £55,000 -8.33% 11
East Midlands +11 47 £55,000 +4.76% 10
North East -10 47 £65,000 +33.33% 14
Yorkshire -48 20 £50,000 -16.67% 12
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 21 (3.30%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.26%) IIS
3 5 (0.79%) CMS
4 3 (0.47%) Confluence
5 2 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
5 2 (0.31%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.16%) DNN
6 1 (0.16%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.16%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.16%) Immediacy CMS
6 1 (0.16%) Kentico
6 1 (0.16%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 2 (0.31%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.31%) Magento
1 2 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (0.31%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 469 (73.74%) Azure
2 146 (22.96%) Azure DevOps
3 95 (14.94%) AWS
4 90 (14.15%) GitHub
5 84 (13.21%) Azure AI
6 77 (12.11%) GitHub Copilot
7 51 (8.02%) Azure Logic Apps
8 45 (7.08%) SaaS
9 44 (6.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 41 (6.45%) Power Platform
11 35 (5.50%) Serverless
12 26 (4.09%) Azure Monitor
13 25 (3.93%) Power Automate
13 25 (3.93%) PowerApps
14 24 (3.77%) Azure Functions
15 22 (3.46%) Azure Data Factory
16 21 (3.30%) Azure Service Bus
16 21 (3.30%) Microsoft 365
17 19 (2.99%) Adobe Creative Cloud
17 19 (2.99%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 31 (4.87%) Internet
2 6 (0.94%) Hyperconnected
3 3 (0.47%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.31%) Firewall
5 1 (0.16%) AMQP
5 1 (0.16%) HTTP
5 1 (0.16%) Modbus
5 1 (0.16%) SSL
5 1 (0.16%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 287 (45.13%) Azure SQL Database
2 224 (35.22%) MongoDB
3 150 (23.58%) SQL Server
4 87 (13.68%) Elasticsearch
5 34 (5.35%) Power BI
6 13 (2.04%) MySQL
7 12 (1.89%) NoSQL
8 7 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (1.10%) Redis
8 7 (1.10%) Relational Database
9 6 (0.94%) NonStop SQL
10 5 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (0.79%) GIS
11 3 (0.47%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (0.31%) MariaDB
13 1 (0.16%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.16%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.16%) Electronic Patient Records
13 1 (0.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 29 (4.56%) Git
2 11 (1.73%) JIRA
3 7 (1.10%) GitLab
4 5 (0.79%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 5 (0.79%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.47%) MSI
5 3 (0.47%) NUnit
5 3 (0.47%) Vite
6 2 (0.31%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.31%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.31%) webpack
7 1 (0.16%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.16%) MSTest
7 1 (0.16%) Selenium
7 1 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 91 (14.31%) Finance
2 49 (7.70%) Social Skills
3 34 (5.35%) Advertising
4 31 (4.87%) Games
5 24 (3.77%) Marketing
6 22 (3.46%) Retail
7 19 (2.99%) Banking
8 12 (1.89%) Analytical Skills
9 9 (1.42%) Automotive
9 9 (1.42%) Law
10 8 (1.26%) Aerospace
10 8 (1.26%) Front Office
11 7 (1.10%) Legal
12 6 (0.94%) Music Industry
12 6 (0.94%) Public Sector
13 5 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (0.79%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.63%) Back Office
14 4 (0.63%) Electronics
14 4 (0.63%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 511 (80.35%) Developer
2 359 (56.45%) .NET Developer
3 110 (17.30%) Senior
4 108 (16.98%) Software Developer
5 66 (10.38%) Senior Developer
6 65 (10.22%) C# Developer
7 55 (8.65%) C# .NET Developer
8 52 (8.18%) Lead
9 47 (7.39%) Software Engineer
10 46 (7.23%) Full-Stack Developer
11 33 (5.19%) Lead Developer
12 31 (4.87%) Senior Software Developer
13 27 (4.25%) .NET Software Developer
14 26 (4.09%) .NET Software Engineer
15 23 (3.62%) Senior Software Engineer
16 21 (3.30%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
17 20 (3.14%) C# Software Developer
17 20 (3.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 19 (2.99%) Azure Developer
19 17 (2.67%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 636 (100.00%) .NET
2 341 (53.62%) ASP.NET
3 274 (43.08%) ASP.NET Core
4 156 (24.53%) HTML
5 153 (24.06%) CSS
6 152 (23.90%) React
7 147 (23.11%) Entity Framework
8 140 (22.01%) Blazor
9 124 (19.50%) RESTful
10 115 (18.08%) Vue
11 113 (17.77%) AngularJS
12 111 (17.45%) .NET Framework
12 111 (17.45%) ASP.NET Web API
13 100 (15.72%) Node.js
14 84 (13.21%) ML.NET
15 68 (10.69%) LINQ
16 54 (8.49%) REST
17 40 (6.29%) JSON
18 22 (3.46%) WPF
19 21 (3.30%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 62 (9.75%) Greenfield Project
2 34 (5.35%) Enterprise Software
3 18 (2.83%) Cloud Native
4 14 (2.20%) Product Ownership
5 13 (2.04%) Digital TV
5 13 (2.04%) Hedge funds
5 13 (2.04%) Sports Betting
5 13 (2.04%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 12 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (1.73%) iPhone
7 11 (1.73%) Mobile App
7 11 (1.73%) Social Network
8 10 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.10%) Algorithms
9 7 (1.10%) BBC
9 7 (1.10%) Social Media
10 6 (0.94%) AI Agents
10 6 (0.94%) Client/Server
10 6 (0.94%) Low-Code
10 6 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.89%) VMS
2 11 (1.73%) Android
3 10 (1.57%) Windows
4 3 (0.47%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 370 (58.18%) Full-Stack Development
2 289 (45.44%) Agile
3 196 (30.82%) CI/CD
4 178 (27.99%) DevOps
5 136 (21.38%) Microservices
6 111 (17.45%) AI
7 104 (16.35%) Machine Learning
8 96 (15.09%) Multithreading
9 93 (14.62%) Software Engineering
10 68 (10.69%) OO
11 57 (8.96%) SDLC
12 53 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
12 53 (8.33%) TDD
13 52 (8.18%) Scrum
14 49 (7.70%) Analytics
14 49 (7.70%) User Experience
15 46 (7.23%) Containerisation
16 43 (6.76%) MVC
17 41 (6.45%) Business Intelligence
18 39 (6.13%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 593 (93.24%) C#
2 388 (61.01%) SQL
3 189 (29.72%) JavaScript
4 153 (24.06%) TypeScript
5 35 (5.50%) PowerShell
6 19 (2.99%) Python
7 11 (1.73%) Kusto Query Language
8 10 (1.57%) T-SQL
9 7 (1.10%) Bicep
10 4 (0.63%) Java
10 4 (0.63%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.47%) Bash
11 3 (0.47%) PHP
11 3 (0.47%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.16%) C++
12 1 (0.16%) Delphi
12 1 (0.16%) F#
12 1 (0.16%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 40 (6.29%) Degree
2 19 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (1.10%) Security Cleared
4 6 (0.94%) Azure Certification
5 5 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (0.63%) AWS Certification
6 4 (0.63%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.31%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.31%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.16%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (3.46%) QA
2 15 (2.36%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.63%) WCAG
4 3 (0.47%) NCSC
5 2 (0.31%) GDPR
5 2 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.31%) ITGC
5 2 (0.31%) SLA
6 1 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 140 (22.01%) Docker
Systems Management
1 132 (20.75%) Kubernetes
2 19 (2.99%) Terraform
3 1 (0.16%) Ansible
Vendors
1 358 (56.29%) Microsoft
2 32 (5.03%) Facebook
3 26 (4.09%) Google
4 19 (2.99%) Adobe
5 13 (2.04%) YouTube
6 7 (1.10%) Apple
6 7 (1.10%) Sony
6 7 (1.10%) Yahoo!
7 5 (0.79%) OpenAI
8 4 (0.63%) Workday
9 3 (0.47%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (0.47%) Splunk
10 2 (0.31%) Foundry
10 2 (0.31%) Oracle
10 2 (0.31%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.31%) Sitecore
11 1 (0.16%) Alterian
11 1 (0.16%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.16%) IBM
11 1 (0.16%) Reuters